1From Josiah, III Quincy to John Quincy Adams, 23 November 1804 (Adams Papers)
I am duly sensible of your polite attention in your letter of the 13. Inst. and its inclosure. It is doing me a very acceptable and important service, to provide me, as you propose, with the documents of the expiring Congress and will lay me under many obligations. Should any of them be too voluminous for your franking power to cover you need not hesitate to inclose them, on that account, by...
2From Josiah, III Quincy to John Quincy Adams, 15 December 1804 (Adams Papers)
I have to acknowledge yours of the 4th Inst. and two subsequent, inclosing public documents and to express my grateful sense of these attentions. Your opinions concerning the late changes in Massachusetts and your reasonings and impressions resulting from them, entirely coincide with them mine. I was particularly well pleased that you find no fault with the “medecines” administered, but...
3From Josiah, III Quincy to John Quincy Adams, 4 April 1819 (Adams Papers)
I am requested by Mess Kavanagh and Cottril late owners of the Ship Hibernia to make some inquiries of your department, which they think may possibly result in some information, which may be useful to them. That Ship was taken, when bound in December 1800, on a voyage from Waldoborough to Jamaica, with a cargo of lumber, by a French Privateer, (Le Jeune Creole) fitted out of a Spanish port...
4From Josiah, III Quincy to John Quincy Adams, 30 May 1820 (Adams Papers)
I have the pleasure to inform you, that at a meeting of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, holden this day, you were unanimously, elected their President. Although your probable residence, at least for some years, at a distance from Massachusetts, may possibly form an objection, in your own mind, to the appointment, yet, in fact the duties of it are little more than nominal, they can...
5From Josiah, III Quincy to John Quincy Adams, 5 July 1826 (Adams Papers)
You will have heard before this reaches you of the fate of your revered father. He has died full of years and of honors, at the very hour which he would have chosen, if I know anything of his heart, had the decision been left to him. On the 4th. of July 1826, at , fifty years, probably to an hour, after he had signed the decleration of his country’s freedom,—at the very moment, when the whole...
6From Josiah, III Quincy to John Quincy Adams, 8 July 1826 (Adams Papers)
As I know you will be desirous to know the circumstances of your father’s funeral and the principles which were adopted in relation to it, and the family having in a very great degree considered my opinion on the subject, I deem it my duty to make you acquainted with both.— Two modes were suggested of paying honor to his memory. 1st. A public funeral, at the expence of the State or the City,...
Edward H Robbins Esquire Judge of the Probate of Wills, and for granting Letters of Administration on the Estates of Persons deceased, having goods, chattels, rights or credits in the County of Norfolk within the Commonwealth aforesaid. To all unto whom these Presents shall come greeting. Know Ye, That upon the day of the date hereof, before Me at a Court of Probate, held at Dedham, in the...
81826-08-01John Quincy Adams and Josiah Quincy, III, Executors’ bond for estate of John Adams, 1 August 1826 (Adams Papers)
Know All men by these Presents, That we John Quincy Adams, Doctor of Laws, Josiah Quincy, Doctor of Laws, George Washington Adams, Esquire, and Josiah Quincy Junior, Esquire, all of Boston, in the County of Suffolk, within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts , are holden and stand firmly bound and obliged unto Edward H. Robbins, Esquire, Judge of Probate of Wills, and for granting...
The Executors of the last Will and Testament of John Adams, late of Quincy deceased, enclose herewith a Copy of the said Will, in which you are interested as Devisees. We also deem it proper to give you notice that the said Will has been proved before the Judge of Probate for the County of Norfolk in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. That we have given the bond required by law for the return...
10John Quincy Adams, Josiah Quincy, III, Inventory of John Adams’s Estate, September 1826 (Adams Papers)
Inventory of Estate of the late John Adams as returned by the Appraisers. With particulars. Long Eastern Room 7 Mahog. Hair bottom chairs 2 Arm chairs 22. 50— 2 do Card tables 10. 00 2 looking Glasses 40. 00 2 Cut Glass Candelabras 16. 00 4 Window Curtains. White dimety 16. 00 1 Pr Brass Andirons and fender 8. 00